When battle loads in Final Fantasy 8

Solid_Snake2K · February 10th, 2003

Here is the problem. Whenever I start a battle in the game, usually it fade's out and then fade it. Now while its fading out, I see the screen is turning out to be very slow and the sounds goes choppy. Then after a few choppy sounds and a very slow loading, it fade's in battle mode. Which is perfectly fine from that point. I played around with the Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.68 plugin. But it turned out to be no use

It would be nice if anyone could tell me how to fix this (ofcourse if you know what the problem is).

**Kane** · February 10th, 2003

Well..... you could try tang a look at my site.
Failing that, give us some more information on your plugin settings and specs.

Solid_Snake2K · February 11th, 2003

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.68
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce4 MX 440/AGP/SSE

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [32 Bit]
- Keep psx aspect ratio: on

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Hi-Res textures: off
- Palettized tex windows: on
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: 65

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: off
- Advanced blending: on

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: on
- Dithering: off
- Screen smoothing: off
- Screen cushion: off
- Game fixes: on [00000002]

Now this is supposed to work fine everywhere in the game. Except when battle mode starts to load that is ...

Solid_Snake2K · February 11th, 2003

Oh! and i tried checking out that page, I did managed to see the full effect... although, it was still very slow... whenever I go into battle the fps drops to about 5-9... hope that helps ..

**Kane** · February 11th, 2003

To be honest, I don't think there is much you can do. The battle transitions in FF8, because of the way they are done, are slow, even if they are 'disabled'

Solid_Snake2K · February 11th, 2003

oh, i see ... well, thanks a lot for your help anyway. I guess i'll have to get myself a new machine

F-3582 · February 14th, 2003

Why don't you try some REAL PSX GRAPHICS? PEOpS Soft driver should be fast enough and it displays the full battle swirl at full speed.

Solid_Snake2K · February 14th, 2003

i havent really tried that yet .. lemme see or it goes better. Btw, i always thought Pete's OpenGL was best plugin .. lemme see or PEOpS Soft driver does the job as well...

Aww... its no good ... the plugin seems to be even worse than OpenGL...

Rebel_X · February 14th, 2003

I have some kind of this problem, just the start of the a battle for 2-3 seconds become crowling.. after that its a singing horse when fading the screen..

**fivefeet8** · February 14th, 2003

You could try running the game from isos and Lowering your resolution.. BTW.. Lewpys glide gpu plugin runs the battle transitions at full speed with 4xFSAA..

Solid_Snake2K · February 15th, 2003

Rebel_X, thats exactly what i have. First the battle swirl isnt even working right .. not only that, its going very very slow for a few secs. I will let you know how to fix the problem once i found out myself ... but i doub that i can find out...

fivefeet8, does it work fine on a GeForce4 mx440? It crashed over here.... thanks though

**fivefeet8** · February 15th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by Solid_Snake2K
fivefeet8, does it work fine on a GeForce4 mx440? It crashed over here.... thanks though

Sorry, but lewpys glide gpu plugin runs on 3dfx voodoo cards.. You can run it using glide wrappers, but they have their own bugs.. Lucky me, I have a V5 and Gforce4 ti 4600..

Solid_Snake2K · February 15th, 2003

*sigh*

Now I will have to live with the slow loading until I get a newer machine I guess

F-3582 · February 16th, 2003

There might be another solution: Enable the Frameskip option in Pete's OpenGL (If you don't like it, you will want to try an older version, because it had a more Final Fantasy-friendly frameskip algorithm)

February 10th, 2003	#1 (permalink)
Solid_Snake2K Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 36	When battle loads in Final Fantasy 8 Here is the problem. Whenever I start a battle in the game, usually it fade's out and then fade it. Now while its fading out, I see the screen is turning out to be very slow and the sounds goes choppy. Then after a few choppy sounds and a very slow loading, it fade's in battle mode. Which is perfectly fine from that point. I played around with the Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.68 plugin. But it turned out to be no use It would be nice if anyone could tell me how to fix this (ofcourse if you know what the problem is). __________________ Windows XP Pro. P3. 553 mhz. 320 MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 SoundBlaster PCI 128

February 10th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Well..... you could try tang a look at my site. Failing that, give us some more information on your plugin settings and specs. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

February 11th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
Solid_Snake2K Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 36	Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.68 Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation GFX card: GeForce4 MX 440/AGP/SSE Resolution/Color: - 800x600 Fullscreen - Desktop changing [32 Bit] - Keep psx aspect ratio: on Textures: - R8G8A8A8 - Filtering: 6 - Hi-Res textures: off - Palettized tex windows: on - Garbage collection: on - VRam size: 0 MBytes Framerate: - FPS limitation: on - Frame skipping: off - FPS limit: 65 Compatibility: - Offscreen drawing: 3 - Framebuffer texture: 2 - Framebuffer access: 0 - Alpha multipass: on - Mask bit: off - Advanced blending: on Misc: - Scanlines: off - Line mode: off - Unfiltered FB: on - Dithering: off - Screen smoothing: off - Screen cushion: off - Game fixes: on [00000002] Now this is supposed to work fine everywhere in the game. Except when battle mode starts to load that is ... __________________ Windows XP Pro. P3. 553 mhz. 320 MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 SoundBlaster PCI 128

February 11th, 2003	#4 (permalink)
Solid_Snake2K Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 36	Oh! and i tried checking out that page, I did managed to see the full effect... although, it was still very slow... whenever I go into battle the fps drops to about 5-9... hope that helps .. __________________ Windows XP Pro. P3. 553 mhz. 320 MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 SoundBlaster PCI 128

February 11th, 2003	#5 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	To be honest, I don't think there is much you can do. The battle transitions in FF8, because of the way they are done, are slow, even if they are 'disabled' __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

February 11th, 2003	#6 (permalink)
Solid_Snake2K Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 36	oh, i see ... well, thanks a lot for your help anyway. I guess i'll have to get myself a new machine __________________ Windows XP Pro. P3. 553 mhz. 320 MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 SoundBlaster PCI 128

February 14th, 2003	#7 (permalink)
F-3582 Back to regular business Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in Sachsen Posts: 3,242	Why don't you try some REAL PSX GRAPHICS? PEOpS Soft driver should be fast enough and it displays the full battle swirl at full speed. __________________ In a world without walls and fences - who needs Windows and Gates?

February 14th, 2003	#8 (permalink)
Solid_Snake2K Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 36	i havent really tried that yet .. lemme see or it goes better. Btw, i always thought Pete's OpenGL was best plugin .. lemme see or PEOpS Soft driver does the job as well... Aww... its no good ... the plugin seems to be even worse than OpenGL... __________________ Windows XP Pro. P3. 553 mhz. 320 MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 SoundBlaster PCI 128 Last edited by Solid_Snake2K; February 14th, 2003 at 23:23.

February 14th, 2003	#9 (permalink)
Rebel_X Smart Star Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Chicago, Oak Lawn Posts: 852	I have some kind of this problem, just the start of the a battle for 2-3 seconds become crowling.. after that its a singing horse when fading the screen.. __________________ "Set sail to sea , But pulled off course By the light of golden treasure. How could he know This new dawn's light. Would change his life forever? How can I be lost, If I've got nowhere to go? Search for seas of gold. How come it's got so cold? How can I be lost? In remembrance I relive.. So how can I blame you When it's me I can't forgive?" - Metallica The Unforgiven ]\|[

February 14th, 2003	#10 (permalink)
fivefeet8 &-)---\|--< Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Smallville Posts: 7,582	You could try running the game from isos and Lowering your resolution.. BTW.. Lewpys glide gpu plugin runs the battle transitions at full speed with 4xFSAA.. __________________ Play emulated games online Main Rig\|\|Intel Q6600@3.2 ghertz\|4x1gb DDR2 1066\|Asrock 1600sli 110db LGA 775\|EVGA 8800gtx@620/1450/975\|2x Seagate 160gb SATA150 Raid0\|250 gb Samsung SATA2 HD\|Seagate 7000.10 500gb HD\|NEC 3520 4x/8x DVD+R/RW DL burner\|Antec TP 650 watt\|40" Sony Bravia 1080p\|20.1" 5ms LCD 1680x1050 Native\|Logitec 5.1 Speaker System w/15" Sub\|Dual Boot Winows XP Pro/Vista 64bit\|\| 2nd Rig\|\|Athlon64 x2 3800+\|2x1 gig PC3200\|BFG Geforce 6800 Ultra OC @450/1250 agp\|60 gig Maxtor IDE HD 7200 RPM\|40 gig Maxtor IDE HD\|Asrock Dual SATA2\|Silver Aluminum ATX\|17" LCD\|\| 3rd Rig\|\|Athlon Xp 2800+\|1.5 gig PC2700\|BFG GeforceFx 5900 Ultra OC agp\|100 gig Maxtor SATA HD\|NF7-s rev2.0\|Nvidia Soundstorm MCP\|19" CRT\|\|

February 15th, 2003	#11 (permalink)
Solid_Snake2K Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 36	Rebel_X, thats exactly what i have. First the battle swirl isnt even working right .. not only that, its going very very slow for a few secs. I will let you know how to fix the problem once i found out myself ... but i doub that i can find out... fivefeet8, does it work fine on a GeForce4 mx440? It crashed over here.... thanks though __________________ Windows XP Pro. P3. 553 mhz. 320 MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 SoundBlaster PCI 128 Last edited by Solid_Snake2K; February 15th, 2003 at 00:47.

February 15th, 2003	#13 (permalink)
Solid_Snake2K Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 36	sigh Now I will have to live with the slow loading until I get a newer machine I guess __________________ Windows XP Pro. P3. 553 mhz. 320 MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 SoundBlaster PCI 128

February 16th, 2003	#14 (permalink)
F-3582 Back to regular business Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in Sachsen Posts: 3,242	There might be another solution: Enable the Frameskip option in Pete's OpenGL (If you don't like it, you will want to try an older version, because it had a more Final Fantasy-friendly frameskip algorithm) __________________ In a world without walls and fences - who needs Windows and Gates?

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